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Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Ancient Sage - More than once when I sat all alone
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004601
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Alfred Lord Tennyson – from The Ancient Sage
…......... more than once when I
Sat all alone, revolving in myself
The word that is the symbol of myself
The mortal limit of the Self was loosed
And passed into the Nameless, as a cloud
Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs
Were strange not mine – and yet no shade of doubt
But utter clearness, and thro' loss of Self
The gain of such large life as match'd with ours
Were Sun to spark – unshadowable in words,
Themselves but shadows of a shadow world